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Project Blue Book Mantell case file (92 pages)
USAF / NARA via The Black Vault · 93 pages · text by OCR
This 92-page Project Blue Book file, released through The Black Vault, covers the 7 January 1948 sighting at Godman Field, Fort Knox, Kentucky. It holds control tower witness reports, a record of the P-51 pursuit led by Captain Thomas Mantell, AMC requests for theodolite readings and weather data, and astronomical tables for Venus and the Moon. One analysis concludes the object was not Venus and calls the sighting unexplained. The file also includes a 1964 letter to the Simpson County coroner about Mantell's death.
“Police”12 pages
- p. 4 …Report of civilians and state police and corroborated version on this incident.
- p. 8 Unknown object first reported by Military Police at Tt Kaox, approx 1400 CST, vicinity of Maysville…
- p. 10 …according to Ft Knox Military Police & "B" Town State Police, a large circular object about 250…
- p. 13 …Kentucky State Police were informed by unknown individual (a) that an unusual aircraft or object was…
- p. 23 TDEW/ Maj Quintanilla/69216
Mantell Case, January 1948
State Police
Franklin, Kentucky
During January of 1948…
- p. 25 …We have taken the liberty of forwarding your letter to the State Police and County Coroner…
- p. 26 At approximately 1400E, 7 January 1948, Kentucky State Police reported to Ft Knox Military Police they…
- p. 27 "Maxwell Flight Service Center made a long distance call to Franklin, Kentucky and spoke to police…
- p. 33 …according to St Knox Military Police and "E" Town state police, a large curcular object from…
- p. 38 …a call came to this Headquarters from State Police, reporting a flying object near Elizabethtown. Another…
- p. 39 …This call was canceled minutes later by the Military Police at Fort Knox who had instructions…
- p. 68 At approx 1300 hrs State Police reported flying object near Elizabethtown. Ten minutes later sighted near…
N.1.1.2.
AP. 110. ___
10. 20. 20. ___
--faster than F-51
1345-1400 cst
Incident #33
2019. ___circular
1. ___very large
180 $ ^{\circ} $
NO. THAT GOOD 1
11:00 27 Jan 48
2. (14)
C: VT5. Godman AFb, Ken.
5. What is many ___
DATE IN 20 APTC ___
PUBLIC SKETCHES
COL 10: bright white
A. TI: "JU" ___ high ___ !!! ___
20m, occary ARTC form 3'9' ( 1 jan 52 )
226777 ON THE OVER 1 $ _{1/2} $ hr.
TY OF CREATION aerial
TWO YEARS
REMARKS: Famous "Mantellcase"
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